How is it that a program such as OpenAI's GPT-3 neural network can answer multiple choice questions, or write a poem in a particular style, despite never being programmed for those specific tasks? It ...

How did the almost 6,000 languages of the world come into being? Researchers have tried to simulate the process of developing a new communication system in an experiment -- with surprising results: ...

A study has revealed that baby talk displays similar properties across 36 languages. A study by the University of York and Aarhus University has revealed that baby talk displays similar properties ...

Human language arises from biological evolution, individual learning, and cultural transmission, but the interaction of these three processes has not been widely studied. We set out a formal framework ...

The enigma of language is that we humans can master it without having any idea how it works. Everyone learns to speak. Everyone communicates with the people around them. Everyone has an internal ...